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9 May 1884 – present
The oldest charitable corporation this section can date in the town's orbit was formed to bury neighbours. The Porter Cemetery Association, formed 9 May 1884 with both white and African-American charter members (Indiana Historical Bureau marker 71.2003.1), took charge of the burial ground Samuel Gard had deeded in 1854 and manages it still, an active independent cemetery inside Potato Creek State Park. A cemetery association is mutual aid in its plainest form — costs pooled, lots kept, the dead of every denomination in the neighbourhood received — and in 1884, in a township where the Huggart Settlement's families were charter members beside their white neighbours, it is also the town's earliest documented interracial institution. Church relief runs beside it at the size the record gives: the town's congregations, dug whole in the banked religion section, carried the ordinary parish course of visits, funds and funerals, and the Church of the Brethren congregation kept an active Women's Work organization on Shultz's 1952 record. No benevolent society, Associated Charities branch or denominational relief society seated in North Liberty was found in any carrier reached; the benevolent-society era, for this town, prints as a searched negative whose settler is the town newspaper's full run.